PETALS: The Aestheticisation of Death in Sylvia Plath’s “Edge” and in the Illustrations of Adriaan van de Spiegel’s Frucht in Mutter Leibe

PETALS: The Aestheticisation of Death in Sylvia Plath’s “Edge” and in the Illustrations of Adriaan van de Spiegel’s Frucht in Mutter Leibe

This article investigates the aestheticisation of death in Sylvia Plath’s poem “Edge” in relation to other poems by her and marginally by Seamus Heaney and Charles Baudelaire, and to the short story “The Oval Portrait” by Edgar Allan Poe. Such aestheticisation, I contend, partakes of the spirit of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ciobanu Estella
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2023-06-01
Series:American, British and Canadian Studies Journal
Subjects:
sylvia plath
“edge”
“the munich mannequins”
“the oval portrait” (e. a. poe)
perfection
petals
death
aestheticisation
anatomical illustration
adriaan van de spiegel
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2023-0006

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https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2023-0006

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